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KESKA: I say and head to the pack house. I head straight to his office and knock. “Come.” I open the door and walk into his office. Beta Gregg is there as well. “May I ask what I have been accused of?” I ask as I enter. “Nothing.” Father answers. “Then why am I here?” I asked with a skeptical tone in my voice. “There are some things that I want you to be aware of, and I want Corla not to overreact if something should happen.” Father says. I definitely don’t like the sound of this. “I can’t speak for her.” I tell him. “Then let me speak to her.” He says. \[Corla, Father wishes to speak to you.\] I tell her. {What do you wish to speak to me about?} she asked. We both noticed the Beta jump a little. Which brought Corla’s attention to him. She just watched him intently for a few minutes. “Corla, both James and Jessie will be shifting this coming week, and there are some things you need to know about. First: I know Jessie is planning something, what that something is, I do not know fully, but what you need to know is that I have people in place to catch her, so please do not bite her. Second: We know she has some people helping her, one of them is helping us to catch her, so again, please no biting.” He tells her. {I am just supposed to let them do whatever they are planning?} She scoffed at him. \[Corla!\] I scold her, \[He is still Alpha, we need to respect that, even if we don’t respect him.\] I tell her. {Sorry Alpha.} she says. “No. not directly, I just don’t want you to kill them, they have to be punished in front of the whole pack, so that everyone knows what they did, and that we don’t and won’t tolerate it.” He says with a bit of harshness in his voice. {I have a solution, let Keska stay at Nana’s and go to work at the human restaurant, that way she is away from Jessie and everything that she might pull.} “I didn’t know she wanted to work in the human town.” Father says in surprise. \[Thanks, Corla, we weren’t going to tell him that.\] I tell her. \[Why not tell him, he will know eventually.\] she tells me. {Keska will defend herself against anyone who tries to hurt her. She will use her Aikido skills, I will help, but I will not kill anyone, but I will not let them take her either.} She tells Father. {But, with that being said, what will happen to Jessie?} She asked Father. “She will be publicly punished, as will the others.” He tells her. {I don’t much care about the public aspect of it, as long as SHE does get punished this time.} She tells him. She turns to look at Beta Gregg. {You’re awfully quiet.} She says to him. “I’m just surprised.” He says. {Surprised about what?”} “That you are here.” {Honest, at least. What’s your take on all this?} She asked him. “I don’t know what to think, it’s a lot to take in. Your father filled me in on Brent and Ronnie, and how they were found, that’s a bit intimidating to say the least.” He says to her. {It was meant to be. Left as a warning and a message to others, we will retaliate if we are hurt.} She says. We watch a shutter go through him. {But it does not answer the question.} She says. “I think that when we catch them, the public punishment that Jessie will get is fair, and for the guys, depending on their involvement in your stabbing, public execution is fair.” {Do you think that public humiliation will work on Jessie? Or will it just make her worse?} She asked. “That’s a hard call.” {True, but if you don’t have the right punishment for her, she won’t change.} She tells them. “She has a point.” Beta Gregg says, looking at Father. “Corla, can you phase Keska?” Father asked. {Don’t know, haven’t tried.} “Please try, take her across the room.” I felt a strange rippling across my skin, and everything went blurry like looking at everything as if I was under water, and then I was across the room from them, next to the conference table. {Guess that answers that question.} she says and phases back. “WHAT ARE YOU?” Beta Gregg asked with a touch of fear in his voice. {Phase wolf.} She answers like it’s the most natural thing in the world, but he seems shaken by it.
KESKA: {Have I answered all your questions and satisfied your curiosity?} she asked father. “Yes, at least for the time being.” He says. {Good. Bye.} and she recedes to the back of my mind. “Is there anything else, Father?” I asked. “No, but Keska, don’t give us away to the humans.” He says. “I will be careful.” I tell him. And leave his office.
DRAKE: “Gregg, are you ok?” I ask him. “I need a drink.” He says. I get up and pour him a shot of good scotch. It’s not anything that can get a wolf drunk by any means, but it can steady the nerves. I walk over and hand it to him. “What’s wrong?” I ask him. “You didn’t tell me she could do all that. And if she did kill Brent and Ronnie, the way you say, she is dangerous.” “And what exactly is a phase wolf?” he asked me. “She is not dangerous, it’s Keska after all, and I don’t know exactly, we would have to talk to Lilly, she would probably know more about that, her mate was a phase elemental.” I tell him.
KESKA: The rest of the week flew by; the phone was ringing almost nonstop with everyone calling to RSVP for the ball, as there was no time to send it back through the mail. Wednesday night, after dinner, I called Adrian. “Hey Cuz, I know you don’t recognize this number, but it’s Keska and this is my new number, please call me when you get this.” And I hung up to wait for his call back. I only had to wait maybe 5 minutes or so. I answered right away. “Hey, Adrian.” “Hey, Sweets, what’s up?” “Is Kina with you?” I asked, “Yes.” “Please put me on speaker, I only want to say this once, and just know that not everyone here knows this yet, and Nana Lilly wants to keep it to a minimum. At least for the time being.” I say. “Ok, is there anyone else that you want to hear this?” He asked. “I don’t mind Rex knowing, but that is all.” I say. “Kina is linking him, so hold on.” He tells me. “Ok, just let me know when he’s there.” “Speaking of Kina, how is she, and when is she due?” I asked. “She has about another 10-10 ½ weeks left.” Adrian says. “Ok, Keska, Rex is here.” I hear Kina say. “Hi, Rex.” “Hi, Keska.” “So, as I told Kina and Adrian, please keep what you are about to hear a secret.” “I can do that.” “I have my wolf, I am a hybrid, I’m what Nana calls a Phase wolf, but to be more specific, I am an elemental phase wolf, what exactly that means I can’t say as I don’t really know myself.” I tell them. “Keska I’m happy for you that you got your wolf, but I know you went through some shit to have her so early.” Adrian says. “Thank you, Adrian. I will let you see her when you come for the ball, but we will have to do it at Nana’s.” I tell them. “We look forward to it. But we have to get going, sweets, we have warriors to sort and wolves to pick for the ball.” He tells me. “Love you, bye.” “Love you too, bye.” We both hung up.
CARLA: I have been fielding calls left and right about the ball. I honestly thought that the instructions were clear. But I guess some peoples idea of mated guards doesn’t seem to match what those words actually say.
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